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Patent GB-190800267-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change Speed Gears.
Inventor: KOOTZ WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-01-04
Granted: 1908-05-14
Abstract: 267. Kootz, W. Jan. 4. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to change-speed and reversing gearing suitable for motor-vehicles of the class in which the speed of the driven shaft may be raised continuously through friction gearing to a maximum when toothed gearing is substituted. A bevel-gear 6 secured to a driving-shaft 5 is formed as a disk with a surface 11 adapted to engage and drive a friction-pinion 12 having a feather 13 sliding in a groove 14 on a driven shaft 9. When the pinion 12 is moved from a central recess 20 outwards upon the surface 11, the shaft 9 is driven at a continuously-increasing speed in one or the other direction. The gear 6 constantly drives a bevel-pinion 8 loose upon the shaft 9 and carrying a claw-clutch member 16. The pinion 12 carries a similar member 15 adapted to engage the member 16 after the pinion 12 has been slid to the extreme left, thereby causing the shaft 9 to be driven positively at its highest speed. An annular groove 17 in the surface 11 allows the pinion 12 to rotate freely when the positive drive is in operation. By au additional bevel-pinion and clutch a positive drive in the reverse direction may be obtained.
Patent GB-190800518-A (GB)
Title: Room-warming Attachment for Gas Burners
Inventor: HARVEY WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1908-01-09
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 518. Harvey, W. H. Jan. 9. Heat radiators.- In a room - warming attachment for lighting burners, the domes of concentric funnels a, b, placed above an Argand, incandescent, or other lighting- burner, are extended down below the top of the lamp chimney, so that, while not interfering with the illumination, they receive radiant heat from the burner, and a conical deflector d is ntted at the bottom of the inner tube. The combustion products pass through the inner funnel a, and air through the annular space between the funnels. The inner funnel a may be corrugated, and a hood e<1> is provided to impede the gases.
Patent GB-190802853-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Tapping Nuts.
Inventor: MILLS HARRY
Filed: 1908-02-08
Granted: 1908-12-17
Abstract: 2853. Mills, H. Feb. 8. Tapping.-In a machine for tapping nuts the blanks are fed from a hopper c' by belt b<9>, which passes round a pulley on a shaft a<1>, driven by worm gear from a belt f<4>, round a tension puiley c<2> and a pulley c<3>, and along the inclined base of the hopper. The hopper has inclined strips of metal &c. to guide the nuts. The belt is provided with studs or projections to engage the blanks. The blanks are deposited at the upper end of a shoot D, down which they slide by gravity into a channel E, whence they are conveyed to the tap C by a reciprocating rod. The shoot, which consists of a flat metal strip and two L-shaped strips d<2>, is formed at the top to the shape of the pulley, being fixed down by a rod d<5> and carrying a guide d<4>, also shaped to the pulley, for facilitating the entrance of nuts to the shoot and preventing them from falling from the belt. The lower end of the shoot, which is held in position by a set-pin d<1>, has its channel slide widened at d<8> to assist the entry of the nuts into the channel. The reciprocating rod is moved forward to the extent of one nut by camarms a<4> on the shaft a<1>, through a vertical lever B engaging at its lower end a cross-lever b<1>, which is pivoted at b<2> and engages the rod. To prevent movement of the rod against great resistance, such as the jamming of a nut, the part of the lever b<1> with which the lever B engages consists of a spring- pressed pin b<5>. The rod is returned by a spring a<7>. The tap C is brought down to its work by the engagement of a lever e<1> with a non-rotating collar e7 on the spindle. The lever has a hook e<5>, which is connected to the projection e<10> on the operating-lever e9 by a spring e<11> to prevent motion of the spindle in case of abnormal resistance such as undrilled blanks. The lever e<9> is moved in one direction by a spring e<13>, and in the other direction by cams e<14> on the shaft a<1>. A pulley f<6> may be provided for driving a rotary or other pump for the cooling-fluid. An extensible rod G on the lever e<1> assists the entry of nuts into the channel E.
Patent GB-190805801-A (GB)
Title: A Process and Apparatus for Retard the Combustion of Gaseous Fuels.
Inventor: FABRY RENE
Filed: 1908-03-16
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 5801. Fabry, R. March 16. Burners, regulating and controlling.-Jets of combustible gas or pulverized liquid fuel are delivered intermittently into a continuous current of air, or jets of air are delivered intermittently into a continuous current of gas, in order to obtain a uniform heating-effect at all parts of a flue. The process is applicable in heating steam superheaters, gas retorts, coke ovens, and muffles, and to furnaces generally. Fig. 4 shows a heating-flue to which combustible gas is admitted intermittently to a burner 1 by a " pulsator," shown in Fig. 1, consisting of a shutter E driven continuously by an electromotor, or otherwise, and working in a shell with rectangular ports B. The rotation of the shutter E interrupts momentarily the passage of the gas to the burner 1 and delivers the gas in puffs. The combustion is completed by a baffle 3 near the outlet 4,
Patent GB-190806472-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Jewellers' Gauges.
Inventor: DAUNER CHARLES JOHN
Filed: 1908-03-23
Granted: 1908-07-02
Abstract: 6472. Dauner, C. J., and Werrmann, C. A. May 22, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Gauges.- A finger gauge for jewellers is used in conjunction with a calliper gauge in order to determine the s i z e of the parts that are required in the manufacture of rings, and the calliper gauge is further provided with a wire gauge and means for determining the size of the setting to be employed. A graduated flexible band 1, Fig. 1, bent into the shape of a ring, carries at one end a fixed yoke 2, which embraces the overlapping thickened portion 8 of the other end, while a loose sliding loop 4 embraces both ends of the band and, when moved towards the thickened portion, is adapted to retain the ring in position after a measurement has been taken. The sliding piece 14 of the calliper gauge 9, the base-plate 10 of which also serves as a wire gauge 24, is then set so that the inner face of the bent end 11 of the base-plate cuts the slide 14 at a graduation corresponding to the size as given by the ring gauge ; the slide is then fixed in position by means of a set-screw. From a series of parts A of set-rings, the part which fits between the projections 11, 15 is selected, thus giving the size of the parts to be employed. The sliding member 21 of a gauge for setting, provided with pointers 22, is attached to the bent end 12 of the baseplate 10.
Patent GB-190807750-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Locomotives.
Inventor: KETCHUM ERNEST CUMMINGS
Filed: 1908-04-07
Granted: 1908-09-24
Abstract: 7750. Ketchum, E. C. April 7. Locomotive and tramway engines.- In a general arrangement of an electric locomotive, a steam turbine drives directly an acyclic dynamo of the type described in Specification No. 16,729, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Dynamoelectric generators &c.], which supplies power to suitable electromotors; the exhaustfrom the turbine is passed through a condenser, the circulating-water of which is cooled by means of air currents. The platform 11 of the car is mounted upon trucks 12 carrying the motors. A boiler 27 of any suitable type supplies steam by a pipe 26 to a turbine 18, the shaft of which drives directly a direct - current dynamo adapted to be driven at a very high speed. The armature 22 of the dynamo is arranged between a central pole-piece 21 and end pole-pieces 19, and is built up of pairs of disks, each pair being separated from the next by an insulating-tube. Suitable brushes connect the disks in series, and any portion of them may be cut out by means of one of the switches of a controller 25. The exhaust from the turbine passes through a condenser 27<*> beneath the platform, from which the condenser water is pumped back to the boiler. The circulating-water for the condenser is pumped to a cooling-tower 30 at the rear, provided with inclined shelves having a tank at the bottom, and having side wings which cause currents of air to be deflected through it.
Patent GB-190810648-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Steel and Wrought Iron Wagon Buffer Cylinders and Apparatus therefor
Inventor: WARD CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-06-10
Granted: 1908-12-03
Abstract: 10,648. Ward, C. W. June 10. Buffers.-Buffer cylinders, either plain as shown in Fig. 5, or with strengthening - ribs d, Fig. 7, are made by pressing semimolten or heated metal between dies.
Patent GB-190811851-A (GB)
Title: Process and Apparatus for Producing as High Temperatures as Possible in Rotary Kilns Heated by Gas.
Inventor: SEMPER MANFRED GOTTFRIED
Filed: 1908-06-01
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 11,851. Semper, M. G. June 1. Rotary kilns.-In a gasfired rotary cement kiln, the clinker zone h is contracted at its rear end i so that gas from the pipe g, on impinging upon the contracted part, may cause eddies and produce a high temperature. The front surface of the contracted part may be conical and slope towards the charging end of the kiln as shown in Fig. 1, or it may slope towards the discharging end as shown in Fig. 2. The rear surface of the contracted part may slope steeply, or a long incline may be formed so that the material passes into the clinker zone without falling into a dead space.
Patent GB-190811946-A (GB)
Title: Elastic Vehicle Tyre.
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1908-06-02
Granted: 1908-07-30
Abstract: 11,946. Allison, C. A., [Continental Co.]. June 2. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic.- A Clincher cover 1 is formed with an inwardly projecting annular rib 13, and is vulcanized to a canvas lining 8. Transverse partitions 9 of elastic india-rubber formed with V- shaped notches opening to the base are vulcanized to the cover. The tyre is forced into the rim and held firmly by an india-rubber cord 11 wedged into the notches.
Patent GB-190817573-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automobiles Carrying Pumps.
Inventor: MERRYWEATHER JAMES COMPTON
Filed: 1908-08-21
Granted: 1909-07-08
Abstract: 17,573. Merryweather, J. C. Aug. 21. Pumps combined with motor road vehicles. - Relates to automobiles on which a pump is carried and driven by the propelling motor by means of a tail shaft projecting through the change-speed gearbox as described in Specification No. 529, A.D. 1908, and comprises means for driving the tail shaft at two different speeds. The first motion shaft A of the change-speed gear carries a sliding sleeve B having formed on it wheels C, D and also a jaw clutch member E adapted to engage with a similar member F carried by the tail shaft and forming part of a gear wheel H, which is constantly in mesh with a gear wheel J carried by a loose sleeve K on the second-motion shaft L. The sleeve K also carries a larger gear wheel M. When the sleeve B is moved so that the clutch E, F is engaged, the pump is driven directly at a high speed. When the sleeve is moved so that the wheels C and N mesh, the tail shaft is driven through the pinions J, H at a slower speed. The wheel C may be used in conjunction with the wheel N, or another wheel may be mounted on the sleeve B to form part of the change-speed gear of the vehicle. In this method, one controlling- lever serves to operate both the change-speed gear for the vehicle and the driving-gear for the pump. A second method shown in Fig. 2 comprises a loose sleeve mounted on the shaft L carrying a jaw clutch R, and also a gear wheel J always in mesh with the wheel H. The shaft L also carries a sliding sleeve S provided with clutch members T, V, one of which is adapted to engage the clutch member R and the other to engage with a clutch member formed on a sleeve V fixed to the shaft L and carrying one or more change-speed gear wheels W. The sleeve S also carries a gear wheel X. In this method, two control levers are used, one for operating each of the sleeves S, B. Assuming that both sleeves are moved so that the wheel C remains in mesh with the wheel X, if the sleeve S be clutched to the member V, the car is driven at its highest speed, while if the sleeve 8 is clutched to the sleeve K the pump is driven at its lowest speed. If then the sleeve B be clutched to the wheel H and the sleeve S moved out of engagement with it, the pump is driven directly. The invention as described shows the pump driven directly at the highest speed, but the wheels could be proportione d so as to drive at the low speed when driving direct.
Patent GB-190819057-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Feed Device for Sewing Machines.
Filed: 1908-09-10
Granted: 1909-03-11
Abstract: 19,057. Fischer, G., and Secretan, P., [Firm of]. Aug. 4, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Sewing-machine feed.-The work is fed between two feed-rollers a', a<2> mounted interchangeably on shafts b. The upper shaft b is mounted in a bracket c adjustable vertically and held in position by screws f, which fix a plate e attached to the bracket c. The lower shaft is mounted in a bracket c' which is normally pressed upwards by a spring. It is depressed, to separate the rollers, by the inclined edge of an horizontally movable bar which bears upon a part of the bracket c<1>. The bracket c' can be clamped in position by a screw c'. The upper roller is driven by a pawl o carried by a lever n having teeth m which gear with a rack k on a cam-actuated slide i. The amount of the feed is determined by a plate r which masks more or less the teeth of the ratchet-wheel. The plate r is carried by the lever q and is adjusted by the lever s. The lower roller is driven from the upper by a chain p', which passes over part of the toothed wheel p<2> and around two rollers u. These rollers are mounted on a lever w, which is shifted by a cam or otherwise to take up the slack in the chain.
Patent GB-190822859-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process of Artificial Incubation.
Inventor: NIX JAMES LOVE
Filed: 1908-10-27
Granted: 1909-07-01
Abstract: 22,859. Nix, J. L. Oct. 27. Burners, applications of.-Heat is supplied to an incubator by an alcohol lamp placed under the end of a pipe 11. The lower portion of the pipe 11 is provided with openings which register with openings 15 in a rotatable collar 16. By adjusting the openings 15, the supply of air for combustion and for admixture with the fumes can be regulated.
Patent GB-190827129-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Type Line Setting and Casting Machines.
Filed: 1908-12-14
Granted: 1909-05-13
Abstract: 27,129. Degener, H., and General Composing Co. Dec. 14. Type-bar making machines.-Relates to means for preventing injury to the working ledges b of the matrices by the contact therewith, during assembly, of the bottom edge of a succeeding matrix as shown in Fig. 3. The ledges b are cut away at their lower ends, forming grooves a, Fig. 2, so that only the middle parts d of the matrices come into contact. The ledges may be only partly removed so as to form extensions of the lugs c, Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190905128-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Jointed Pipe Connection for Tubes or Pipes.
Inventor: KOENIG JOHANN
IPC: F16L27/053
Filed: 1909-03-03
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 5128. Koenig, J. March 3. Ball-and-socket joints; hinge and swivelling joints. -To relieve the pressure in both directions in an expansion joint, an interior balla n d - socket arrangement is employed, consisting of a bolt e having its ballshaped end socketed in a bearing h in a second bolt g and secured by a cap i. The bolts g, e are secured to the pipes by bridges k, l or the like. The centre of the ball f should coincide with the centre of the balljoint a, b. The packing d is adjusted by a ring secured by bolts having spring washers. In a modification, two bolts g are replaced by a single rod, and the ball-shaped end pieces of the connecting-pipe are integral with the pipe.
Patent GB-190908391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Shirts.
Inventor: JUDGE EMILY SIMPSON
Filed: 1909-04-07
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 8391. Judge, E. S. April 7. Metal-strip fastenings.-A detachable fastening strip is used to attach a shirt front to a waistcoat, and thus prevent bulging. Two slits are made in the shirt front at each side, and register with two corresponding slits made in the waistcoat underneath the lapel. The fastening device a, Fig. 2, is then placed beneath the front, with lugs b at each end passing each through a pair of registering slits. The lugs may be pivoted to the frame a by a spring hinge, so as to stand up at right-angles while the device is being applied, and to lie flat after they have passed through the slits. Fig. 5 shows a modification, in which one lug e can slide on the frame into one pair of slits, after the other lug has been inserted through the other pair. Fig. 6 shows lugs b integral with the frame, and retaining-notches f behind the lugs.
Patent GB-190911420-A (GB)
Title: A Device for Holding Buttons while being Sewn On.
Inventor: MORRISS HAROLD SIDNEY
IPC: D05B3/14
Filed: 1909-05-14
Granted: 1909-06-17
Abstract: 11,420. Morriss, H. S. May 14. Button-attaching machines.-Buttons, while being sewn on, are held at a short distance from the work, so that a stem is formed beneath the button by winding the thread around, by means of a holder comprising a length of wire bent to form two main limbs a, which lie on the material and form the handle, the ends of the limbs being bent back and over again to form spring clips b in which the button c is held. Alternatively the holder may be made in the form of a pair of tongs provided with an arrangement for holding the button away from the work.
Patent GB-190913148-A (GB)
Title: Rotary Advertising Device.
Inventor: LEFEVRE GASTON
IPC: F03D3/06
Filed: 1909-06-04
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 13,148. Lefevre, G. June 6, 1908, [Convention date]. Rotary cylinder, prism, and like apparatus.- A rotary advertising - device comprises four metallic vertical curved surfaces a held by vertical supports. The surfaces are made of thin metal, strengthened by angle-irons band rendered rigid by stays c, d, the upper stay c carrying an inverted pivot-bearing f, and the lower one d a collar i for centring the device. Wires are crossed between the outer edges of the surfaces to brace them. The four surfaces may be formed of two pairs of wings, each pair forming the letter S.
Patent GB-190914200-A (GB)
Title: Process of Purifying Gas.
Inventor: HALL ELMON LAWRENCE
IPC: C10K1/20
Filed: 1909-06-17
Granted: 1910-01-20
Abstract: 14,200. Hall, E. L. July 11, 1908, [Convention date]. Purifiers.-Illuminating-gas is freed from carbon bisulphide and other difficultly removable sulphides by being subjected to a high temperature, whereby these but slightly reactive sulphides are converted into sulphuretted hydrogen, which is removed by ordinary methods. A suitable apparatus for carrying-out the process comprises two checkerwork chambers B, which are alternately heated by gas supplied from a generator A, and, when heated, are used to heat the gas to be purified. The gas, which has been purified from sulphuretted hydrogen, but which still contains sulphides, passes by a pipe 19 to the chamber B, and is there heated to preferably between 400‹ and 900‹ C., the less reactive sulphides being thus converted into the more reactive sulphuretted hydrogen. Steam may be introduced by a pipe 22 to facilitate the reactions. The gas passes away by a pipe 27 through a water-seal D to an ordinary purifier for removing the sulphuretted hydrogen thus formed. Two chambers B are provided, so that while one is in use the other can be heated. In the Specification in its original form, as open to inspection under Section 91 (3) (a), it is stated that the out-going gases from the chamber B are made to heat the entering gases by passing both through a recuperator. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190926367-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Grind-stones for Disintegrators for Minerals and the like.
Inventor: KOSINSKI BRONISLAW
Filed: 1909-11-13
Granted: 1910-09-29
Abstract: 26,367. Kosinski, B. Nov. 13. Disk mills.-Relates to a modification of the grindstone described in Specification 12,038/09, applicable for disintegrating minerals and the like. The stone is provided with a number of series of slightly-projecting ribs x, those of each series being parallel and the series collectively intersecting each other in three directions, so as to form the hollows b on the grinding-surface of equilateral-triangular form and of the same width at the surface as at their bases.
Patent GB-190927217-A (GB)
Title: Steam Turbine Blades Made from Pure Iron and Nickel.
Filed: 1909-11-23
Granted: 1910-11-17
Abstract: 27,217. Akt.-Ges. Brown, Boveri, et Cie. Feb. 4, [Convention date]. Blades for steam turbines are made of an alloy of pure iron and nickel, which does not contain the slightest trace of carbon.
Patent GB-191004149-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Labelling, Wrapping and other like Machines.
IPC: B65C1/04
Filed: 1910-02-19
Granted: 1911-02-16
Abstract: 4149. Day & Sons, J., Day, C. H., Day, A., and Naylor, W. Feb. 19. Feeding sheets &c.-In machines for affixing labels around three or four sides of packages, before the labels are inserted in the magazine, the piles of labels are clamped at the middle or at one end by clamps t in recesses s, Fig. 1, in a frame j, which is rotated or oscillated about its shaft i, by means of a crank-disk k and connecting- rod m, in order to loosen and separate any labels that may be sticking together. The labels are then placed on the bottom plate 3 of the magazine x, Fig. 7, which is fitted with strips arranged in longitudinal recesses in the sides and adjustable by means of screws 2 to fit labels of different sizes. The supporting- rod 4 of the plate 3 is provided with ratchet teeth 5 engaged by pawls 6 pivoted to a sliding collar 7, which is reciprocated by a cam and lever. The label-support 3 is drawn down by the pawls 6 to leave the top label adhering to an adhesive picker 121. On the upward travel of the collar 7, the pawls 6 are lifted out of engagement with the teeth 5 so as to allow a weighted chain 18 to raise the pile of labels up to stop-pins 25. Spring fingers carried by a bell-crank lever rest upon the top label and are reciprocated in order to detach this label from the one beneath, and to arch it in readiness for the picker to receive it. The pickers 121 are carried by arms 104 on a spindle 76, which is rotated intermittently through a Geneva-stop gearing, and receives an up-anddown motion. In the lower position, the arms are held by a detent 110. A brake-disk 105 is pressed on to the arms by means of a spring. The picker 121 is in two parts loosely bolted to a main portion 117, Fig. 12, and enclosing a stripper-plate 123. This is depressed against the action of springs by levers 130, Fig. 1, engaging with pins on a box which receives the labels from the pickers. The plates 117 of the pickers are carried by spring-pressed rods sliding in frames 113, Fig. 1, on the ends of the arms 104, Fig. 7. To be put into action, they are depressed by cams 118 provided with handles 119, Fig. 1. The pickers receive gum from a roller rotating in a reservoir.
Patent GB-191004459-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Cinder Sifter.
Inventor: PRIESTLEY WILLIAM CHAPMAN
IPC: F24B15/00
Filed: 1910-02-23
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 4459. Priestley, W. C., and Hinchcliffe, E. Feb. 23. Ash-pans.-A combined dust pan and cinder sifter to be placed beneath a fire range or grate comprises a box or pan 1, Fig. 2, fitted with one or two sieves 2 and having a discharge aperture 4 closed by a swing flap 5, and a removable lid or cover 7. The cinders having collected on the sieve, the top of the box is closed by the sliding lid and the cinders sifted by agitating the box. Fig. 4 shows a removable sieve 2<a> of coarser mesh placed obliquely above the sieve 2, the discharge aperture 4 being fitted with a spout 5<a> closed by a removable plug 6.